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Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 4 covers the fourth part of The Mercy of Gods, TURNABOUT.  

In this episode:

• we take note of the various turnabouts that happen between our heroes, the Night Drinkers, the Carryx and other various sundry folks
• Dafyd and the Swarm finally make whoopee, and Tonner is sad about it
• the Night Drinkers attack, the humans counter-attack, and earn a surrender
• we guess as to whether "humans are endurance hunters" is foreshadowing for the larger narrative (SPOILER: yes).
• Brigid details empathy as a competitive advantage
• Clint cannot help but bring up political philosophy
• your hosts dissect Ekur-Tklal's torture of the Five Fold Enemy, and the Swarm's connection to the starfish troopers
• we speculate about Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Book 11, part VII, which goes like this: 

"A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must needs be cut off from the whole tree: so a man that is divided from another man, is divided from the whole society. A branch is cut off by another, but he that hates and is averse, cuts himself off from his neighbour, and knows not that at the same time he divides himself from the whole body, or corporation. But herein is the gift and mercy of God, the Author of this society, in that, once cut off we may grow together and become part of the whole again. But if this happen often the misery is that the further a man is run in this division, the harder he is to be reunited and restored again: and however the branch which, once cut of afterwards was graffed in, gardeners can tell you is not like that which sprouted together at first, and still continued in the unity of the body."

Join us next time when we cover tMoG Pt. 5, FISSURES, where the team engages in some fair play. Follow the Mercy of Pods on social media at themercyofpods, or email us at themercyofpods@gmail.com. Logo by Matt Howse. Music is Push The Button by Sid Luscious and the Pants. 

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Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 3 covers the third part of The Mercy of Gods, PUZZLES.  

In this episode:

• your hosts take credit for manifesting the upcoming TV show
• we break down some of the social and biological darwinism philosophies of the Carryx
• the team gets a new task - be useful or else
• the Carryx stumble into a trap on Ayayeh and Clint goes into great detail about how this plays into the podcast's (probably) correct theory about What Is Going On
• Jessyn is still strugs to func
• everyone has just about had it with Tonner Fries
• Brigid elaborates on her favorite fungus
• the Night Drinkers attack, and we have to say goodbye to one of our main cast

Join us next time when we cover tMoG Pt. 4, TURNABOUT, where the team engages in some fair play. Follow the Mercy of Pods on social media at themercyofpods, or email us at themercyofpods@gmail.com. Logo by Matt Howse. Music is Push The Button by Sid Luscious and the Pants. 

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Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 2 covers the second part of The Mercy of Gods, CATASTROPHE. 

In this episode:

• we cover the conquest of Anjiin by the Carryx and their menagerie of horrible animals of violence, it is not pretty
• lots of people die, but thankfully not Campar (<3)
• speaking of not pretty, there are poop mats (let us never speak of this again)
• Brigid theorizes about hella swarms on Anjiin
• Clint hints several times at our Extremely (Probably) Correct Theory but does not reveal it quite yet
• we speculate on what it would be like to do sex on The Swarm
• no one wants to talk about the transport ship and everyone is relieved when we finally get to wherever the hell we end up

Join us next time when we cover tMoG Pt. 3, PUZZLES, where we finally describe our Extremely (Probably) Correct Theory of What Is Happening. Follow the Mercy of Pods on social media at themercyofpods, or email us at themercyofpods@gmail.com. Logo by Matt Howse. Music is Push The Button by Sid Luscious and the Pants. 

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Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 1 covers the first part of The Mercy of Gods, BEFORE. 

In this episode:

• we analyze the central conflict of the series, the fact that the funding colloquy is going to split up the research group!
• Brigid hearts Ekur-Tkalal
• Clint goes googly eyed over Campar
• Everyone dumps on Tonner Freis
• Brigid looks up what "superluminal" means
• we gush over The Swarm and detail exactly when the Swarm takes control of [CHARACTER REDACTED].
• we demand justice for Rickar
• no one is all that worried about the seventeen (17) city-sized alien spaceships that are on their way to Anjiin, they're probably just here to hang out

Join us next time when we cover tMoG Pt. 2, CATASTROPHE, where some real bad stuff happens. Follow the Mercy of Pods on social media at themercyofpods, or email us at themercyofpods@gmail.com. Logo by Matt Howse. Music is Push The Button by Sid Luscious and the Pants. 

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